Developing an Effective AppSec Security Program – Brendon Macaraeg – BSW #151
Brendon Macaraeg is the Sr. Director of Product Marketing of Signal Sciences. Focus on the people, processes and tools a dev team needs to put an effective security program in place. Discuss how to improve listener's current program and tooling to develop, release secure code and proactively protect their apps in prod. Four potential key tactics or areas to cover.
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Brendon Macaraeg is the Senior Director of Product Marketing for Fastly’s product portfolio where he manages a team of product marketers responsible for messaging and positioning, sales enablement and competitive intelligence across Fastly’s portfolio of web app and API security, delivery and serverless compute offerings. He has over 8 years of security experience in various product marketing roles. He came to Fastly via its October 2020 acquisition of Signal Sciences, a web app and API security vendor. Prior security roles include supporting CrowdStrike’s Professional Services team and Symantec’s consumer and enterprise products and services. Before getting into security, he worked in product management across a variety of industries. He started his career as an editorial researcher and staff writer at PC Magazine. He has a Masters of Professional Studies from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and a Bachelor of Science from Minnesota State University, Moorhead.